Canada



A. TRAiLL.

FLOOR POUSHING MOP. APPLICATION mzo mm: 20. 1918.

Patented May 20, 1919.

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ALEX NDER TRAILL,

OF VANCUUVER, BLITISHCQLUMBIA, CANADA.

FLOOR-POLISHING IMOP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

latented May 20, 1919.

Application filed June 20, 1918. Serial No. 241,026.

To all who! it may om-urn Be it known that I, ALEXANDER TRAILL, a citizen of the Dominion of Canada, residing at Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Floor-Pol- .to be more readily hpplied or removed with out the requirement of securing-attachments tant improvement, the

ishing Mops, of which specification.

This invention relates to a floor dusting or polishing mop of that class wherein "a strip of woolen or cotton'fringed fabric s remorably secured to the. mop head that it may be readily taken off for washing or renewal.

The improvements are directed to the particular construction of the supporting frame of the mop head, enabling the fringed fabric the following is a.

eral ob]ects are attainedare fully set forth companied, in which in thefoilowing specification, reference being made to the drawings by which 1t is acsection through the frame showing the Figure 1 is a vertical mo 1 head supporting handle withdrawn from its connection to the head, being a section on the line 1-1 in Fig.2. 7

Fig. 2 is a sectional plan on the line 2-2 in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a cross section of the central connection of the head on the line 3-3 in Fig.

1, and

Fig. 4 is a plan of the handle attachment. The. supporting frame is formed of stout wire doubled parallel at a width approxi- -mately that of the tubular body of the mop 5.9 head fabric 2. The mid-length of this wire is formed as a loop 3 Where. it is secured to thehandle attachment to be described later.

From the loop 3 each end is doubled outward and backward at 4 and at the heel or back of the'head is turned at 5 outward and forward and the forwardly turned ends'G are angled inward toward the middle line where they closely approach one another. At 6 the wire is doubled and returns parallel in a vertical plane to the outline 6, 1, 3, and at a'dista'nce thereupward on itself I from to fit the. tubular portion of the fringed fabric 2. I

At the center the two extreme ends are secured at T by any suitable. means in the upwardly turned end of a plate 8 which fits within the upwardly turned edges of a plate 9 within which the central loop 3 is fitted.-

The plate 8 is secured to the plate 9 by two 1 frame 3. l, 5. (3 to thecentral plates 9 10; the plate 9"is secured rivets 10, thus permanently securing the To the middle of screw 11 which passes through and projects above the plate S by which s'crew th'c fabric supportlng frame is secured to'the end of the mop handle.

The plates 8 and 9 and the loop 3 and ends 7 are secured together at such angle to'the plane of the head-frame as is convenient for the operator.

Along the free ends (3 of the wires doubled in a vertical plane may be passed the opposite ends of fringed fabric 2, which forms the mop. When passed from the ends] 6 alongeach side of the frame and around the-bends 5,

they will form a heart-shaped mop which is a convenient form for enabling corners to be the tubular body of the reached. either for polishing or dustin but beyond this bend 5 the mop fabric 2"fnay be further passed along the parallel central portions to the bends 4% at which the loop '3 and ends 7 of the frame are connected to its handle attachment, so that in distinction to the common practice in mop holding frames, the. fringed material is not only carried around the edge of the mop head but is projected within the area so inclosed. thus providing an'additional hold for retaining the mopping material on the frame without any supplementary fastening. such as tapes or the like. it further providcsa fuller and more compact head having a larger amount of polishing material.

The handle. 15 ma be eonnerted to the head frame of the mop in any convenient manner. As here shown the. end of the handle has a saw out within its ferrule 1 into which cut a straight piece of flat iron 12 is inserted. The inner end of 12 has prongs 13, see Fig. 4, which are driven into the end wood of the handle and a pin 16 is driven through an aperture in the ferrule, handle and the iron 12.

It will be noticed that the resilience of the outer edge of the frame is very much reduced where the frame is connected at the center to the mop handle, so that the hardest polishing pressure is there applied and the outer edge gives the lighter finishing pressure.

The strip of mop fabric is removed from the head frame by a manual pull applied where the strip bridges-between the free ends (3 of the frame. This pull withdraws the strip from both sides of the frame simultaneously.

Although the frame is described as made of doubled wire and is heart-shaped, andthus-affords a simply made and thoroughly efiicient supporting frame, I do not desire to be confined to thd use of sich wire nor to the outline form the frame given, or the manner of its attaefhment to the handle; as the essential feature of the invention re sides in the use of a frame onto which a continuous length of mop fabric may be passed to not only inclose a certain outline of head, but to provide the area within that outline with the mop fabric, and this in a "manner that the fabric will retain its con- 'nectlon to the head frame wlthout any supplementary fastening.

'Having now particularly described my in vention, I hereby declare that what I claim as new and desire to be protected in by Letters Patent, is:

1. A floor polishing mop head, comprising in combination, a central attaching portion provided with means for attachment of the same to ahandle, a frame of Wire doubled vertically from each end toward the center and the doubled ends doubled horizontally from the center toward one another and in the same plane each doubled end bent outward and backward beyond the end of the central loop and then outward and forward to bring the two free looped ends into proximity, the central loop and the adjacent ends of the wire being secured to the central attaching portion, and means for removably securing a handle to the central portion.

2. A floor polishing mop head, comprising a stout wire, the ends of which are doubled inward in the smile plane to adjacent the midlength and the doubled ends are doubled at the middle in a plane at right angles to the first mentioned bend, and thereafter the doubled ends are bent outward and backward parallel to the middle bend from positions adjacent the ends of the inwardly bent wire, each doubled end being again tm'ned outward and forward to a position beyond the backward bend at the center where the free loop ends are brought into proximity, means for securing the center of this wire frame to a handle, said means comprising the upturning of the central loop and the two ends of the wire adjacent to the angle which the handle is desired to have with the mop head frame, a

central plate with its opposite edges turned upward to fit the central loop, a second plate adapted to fit within the upturned edges of the first named plate, said second plate having an upturned end apertured to receive the ends of the wire adjacent the middle loop in which apertures the ends of the wire are SeCL1IQ(l,-111G3I1S for riveting the two plates together whereby the frame is strongly secured at the center, and means for attaching the handle of the mop to the connected plates.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

ALEXANDER TRAILL. 

